How to add timestamp to video with different date & time format provided by android?

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I am making android app to add timestamp to video using FFMPEG library and also it works fine but it add timestamp using by default date time format provided by FFMPEG.

it's uses YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format for timestamp

where android provide different date & time format Click here for examples

ex: I want to use "EEE, MMM d, ''yy" date format for timestamp.

How to do that?

I an using this FFMPEG Command:

ffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=roboto.ttf:fontsize=36:fontcolor=yellow:text='%{pts\:gmtime\:1456007118}'" -preset ultrafast -f mp4 output.mp4

Gyan · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-05T06:11:04.147

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ffmpeg calls strftime from the system's linked C library to generate the formatted string, so what's possible will depend on what your available strftime function can do.

That said, this is the closest I can get, using MinGW strftime

text='%{pts\:gmtime\:1456007118\:%a, %b %d, %y}'

which produces

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edited Dec 05 '19 at 06:11

answered Dec 05 '19 at 05:56

Gyan

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what is %a,%b,%d,%y? – Milan Tejani Dec 05 '19 at 05:59
how to customize command for other date & time format? Is there any other attributes like %a 7 %b in FFMPEG? – Milan Tejani Dec 05 '19 at 06:06
Those are strftime format specifiers.See http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html for specifiers available on linux. – Gyan Dec 05 '19 at 06:06
when i try to print colon between %H and %M is show me error because i want to print hours:Minutes ex: 06:25 – Milan Tejani Dec 05 '19 at 09:42

How to add timestamp to video with different date & time format provided by android?

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